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Street View 107: Longboard and Americana in Hyde Park
Street View is a fashion series in which Isa Giallorenzo spotlights some of the coolest style seen in Chicago.As I headed to Promontory Point beach (aka the beach that was recently closed for George...
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Reader's Agenda Fri 7/5: Windy City Ribfest, Anime Midwest, and EDM on the beach
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:In case you aren't familiar with the parlance, a "ribber" is a person who is an expert at cooking ribs.…[ Read more ][ Subscribe to the...
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Tell us what you want to do at the Pitchfork Music Festival, get a free...
Last year, when Reader staffers were sitting around discussing how to cover the Pitchfork Music Festival, we realized that, between the beer lines, the blazing heat, and the overlapping sets, no one...
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Almodovar takes flight, and the rest of this week's screenings
In this week's issue Ben Sachs gives four stars to Pedro Almodovar's latest, I'm So Excited, and Drew Hunt has a three-star review of Julian Roman Polsler's philosophical fantasy The Wall. You'll also...
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Did you read about the Egyptian protests, the IRS, and sponsored content?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That on Wednesday, when the Egyptian military forced Mohamed Morsi from office, there were reportedly more than 80...
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Remembering Dick Mell (and what he was really doing up on that table)
When the Wall Street Journal in 1984 called Chicago "Beirut on the Lake," the Reader's Gary Rivlin ran with the metaphor and called Alderman Richard Mell and his 28 white allies on the City Council the...
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Show us your . . . Internet-famous French bulldog
Manny has his own T-shirt line, and you don't. by Gwynedd Stuart It used to be that the only way for an animal to get famous was for it to be in the movies or on TV. And really, those animals weren't...
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Zoom in: Ravenswood
We're directed through the Truc Lam Buddhist Temple in Ravenswood by a handful of underage tour guides. by Aimee Levitt The Buddha's birthday is celebrated on the eighth day of the fourth month of the...
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12 O'Clock Track: "You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack" is outsider-hip-hop...
The other day I was introduced to the work of Viper, a Houston-based rapper who's been picking up a little bit of online notoriety over the past few weeks, mostly due to message board users attempting...
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Curtis Sittenfeld talks about earthquakes, twins with psychic powers, and...
Curtis Sittenfeld is a relative newcomer to Saint Louis, so it took a native to teach her about some local lore, specifically the time back in 1990 when a climatologist named Iben Browning predicted a...
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Delmark salvages a classic album from Roscoe Mitchell
In 2010 Chicago's venerable Delmark Records purchased the avant-garde catalog of the moribund Canadian jazz imprint Sackville Records, which was formed in 1968 by Bill Smith and John Norris. In...
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The devious psychology behind "free to play" video games
I recently got massively addicted to an iPhone game called The Simpsons: Tapped Out. Its premise is fairly simple: After Homer accidentally destroys Springfield through a catastrophe at the nuclear...
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This week in tactile cinema: Monsters University and Stan Brakhage
One of the most striking details in Monsters University is a student-made flyer that gets passed around throughout the story. The Pixar animators exquisitely re-create the look of Xeroxed text and...
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Reader's Agenda Sat 7/6: Chosen Few House Picnic, North Michigan Avenue Art...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:The Chosen Few Old School Reunion Picnic has hosted house music outdoors since the genre's invention over two decades ago.…[ Read more ][...
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Reader's Agenda Sun 7/7: Chicago Botanic Garden Art Festival, Bristol...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:Peruse botanic-themed and botanic-made paintings, jewelry, ceramics, and more at the Chicago Botanic Garden Art Festival on the esplanade.…[...
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Weekly Top Five: The best of Otto Preminger
Despite being shut out of their longtime venue in the Portage Theater, the resolute folks of the Northwest Chicago Film Society are full steam ahead with their summer programming, setting up shop at...
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The Jungle Book sets off another rumble
Silk Road theater's Jamil Khoury took aim at Mary Zimmerman and The Jungle Book only to be disarmed. by Deanna Isaacs On June 11, ten days before the first performances of Mary Zimmerman's...
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Reader's Agenda Mon 7/8: Cartoons at the MCA, square dancing, and the best...
Looking for something to do today? Agenda's got you covered:Fend off your Garfieldian case of the Mondays by visiting the "Modern Cartoonist" exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art, which showcases...
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Karen Fraid: Unafraid to tell the truth about school "reform"
About the only good thing to say about living in the Orwellian universe of Chicago, where Mayor Emanuel says he's saving public schools by destroying them, is that it inspires some pretty clever...
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Did you read about Mohamed Morsi, John Roberts, and Andy Murray?
Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.Hey, did you read:• That ousted President Mohamed Morsi's decision last month to appoint a member of a tourist-massacring Islamist...
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